My Full battery (T420) test if interested

I was interested in how far a full battery (6 cell) charge would go with all settings cranked up to high or near high, and got about 3.34 hrs/minutes. I got down to 7% when I got the final warning that it would go into hibernate mode automatically if I did not connect to another power source.

Heavy internet usage, Wordpad, Youtube a little, 20 minutes veiwing " 2012"Netflex movie, and the screen at the full 15 setting.

For me, the range was just fine. Using "Some" battery life settings, I know I would be just fine on the road until I found a power plug.

Movies was another matter. The one movie I viewed "2012" was OK, but it was not steller. Had to view the screen straight on or it would not look right. YouTube viewing was better for some reason. Of course, I did not purchase this notebook for games, movies as such but for work and Internet usage.

 

Thanks for posting your results.

 

Thanks for those 'real life' results. 1 question, English is not my native language and I do not understand 'steller' (neither does Google translate)

 

How straight on do you have to watch something? My wife and I were thinking of also using this with the ability to watch movies on trips and edit photos (neither of us are photo idealists so don't need the most accurate color)

 

He meant stellar, which can be synonymous to outstanding

 

So, 'not stellar' would mean something like mediocre?

 

Thanks for running this test and posting the results.

 

No. It would more or less mean 'not amazing'. People tend to say 'good, but not stellar'.

 

It is not as good as I expected. Which job consumes more power: heavy internet or video playback?

 

How about something more reasonable along the lines of

CPU Adaptive
CPU Deeper Sleep Enabled
Brightness 7-8/15
Fan control balanced
Optical drive powered off or removed

EDIT:
Also, which browser did you use? Chrome would raise a red flag for me.

 

Browser used was IE 9. Did not install Chrome yet on this system as I have heard would consume more battery.

Video playback consumes more battery power over heavy Internet/Word program usage.

Stellar means to me as outstanding/amazing, but I did not expect this watching a movie. Had to look directly straight on with no angle viewing, which was also expected. One person could watch a movie just fine, but having two viewing it will cause one or both from having a good experience. Movies did run well, no skipping nor lag.

Screen set to 15
Optical drive enabled
Fan on high
SpeedStep enabled/ CPU adaptive